PENNSYLVANIA FIRE POLICE ASSOCIATION
4050 Mulberry Lane, Dover, PA 17315
Phone 717 292-3154 Fax 717 292-2910 Email
astarepfp@aol.com
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What Can You Do?
Write or email (through Ms. Bowser) thanking Senator Casey for his help.
Chloë C. Bowser
Legislative Correspondent
Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr.
393 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
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Write to Senator Pat Toomey and ask him to support the Fire Police Fairness
Act. Use your own language.
Write in longhand if you can, type if you cannot. Ask him to support Senate Bill 1315 as a co-sponsor. Tell him that everyone on the fire ground is covered except Fire Police and Juniors. Tell him that Fire Police are volunteers that serve the public and risk their lives to serve people of Pennsylvania. Talk about the danger on the highways. Tell personal experience of someone who was injured as a volunteer. Thank him for all he has done for the residents of Pennsylvania. Tell him how important it is to us as members of volunteer fire companies and how we want to support him. His
address:
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Write
to Rep. Lamar Smith U.S. Representative, Texas’s 21st District House
Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
To the Honorable Lamar Smith, Sir, as Chair of the Committee that is to oversee House Bill 1348, The Fire Police Fairness Act. Please be assured that I am eager to see the Special Fire Police of all States be included in the Public Safety Officers Benefit Act Bill. I support the Volunteers that give of themselves. I know that they should be honored as all Brothers and Sisters in the Family of the Fire Service. Please do all you can to right what I know to be an inequity. Address for the Letter: Chairman of the Subcommittee House Judiciary,
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security 2138 Rayburn
House Office Building
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BLUMENTHAL, LIEBERMAN INTRODUCE BILL
TO EXTEND BENEFITS TO FIRE POLICE OFFICERS
(Washington, DC) – Senators Richard
Blumenthal (D-CT) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) introduced the Fire Police Fairness
Act that will extend public safety officer death benefits to Fire Police
officers. Currently, there is no uniform national designation for fire police,
and as a result, many of them face additional obstacles when attempting to
access benefits that other public safety officers receive.
“This commonsense measure will ensure
that fire police receive the benefits they have earned as they risk their lives
to protect our communities,” said Senator Blumenthal. “Extending benefits to
fire police will both eliminate burdensome red tape and institute basic fairness
among all first responders.”
“Fire police play an important role in
responding to fires and deserve the same benefits as other first responders
should they suffer grievous injuries or death in the line of duty. I’m proud to
introduce this legislation with Senator Blumenthal,” said Senator Lieberman.
Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) has
introduced the companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
“In towns across eastern Connecticut, fire police are first on the scene right along with police, fire fighters and EMTs,” said Congressman Courtney. “If, God forbid, they are injured or killed in service to their community, it is only right that they receive the same benefits as other public safety officers. I am pleased that Sens. Lieberman and Blumenthal have joined me in this effort to cut through bureaucratic red tape, and ensure that fire police get the benefits they earn and deserve.”
Go to www.pesla.org for sample letters and further information on the companion House Bill HR 1348.
